Homeland Security Secretary Was Close to Resigning After Trump Berated Her.

[elleng]

Source: nyt

Kirstjen Nielsen, the homeland security secretary, told colleagues she was close to resigning after President Trump berated her on Wednesday in front of the entire cabinet for what he said was her failure to adequately secure the nation’s borders, according to several current and former officials familiar with the incident.

Ms. Nielsen, who is a protégée of John F. Kelly, the White House chief of staff, has drafted a resignation letter but has not submitted it, according to two of the people. As the head of the Department of Homeland Security, Ms. Nielsen is in charge of the 20,000 border agents who work for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Mr. Trump’s anger toward Ms. Nielsen at the cabinet meeting was part of a lengthy tirade in which the president railed at his entire cabinet about what he said was their lack of progress toward sealing the country’s borders against illegal immigrants, according to one person who was present at the meeting.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, said Thursday that “the president is committed to fixing our broken immigration system and our porous borders. We are a country of laws and the president and his administration will enforce them.’’



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During the meeting, Mr. Trump yelled about the fact that the United States has a porous border and said that more needs to be done to fix that. When members of his cabinet pointed out that the country relies on day-laborers who cross the border each day, Mr. Trump said that is fine, but continued to complain, one person said.



CLEARLY the guy can't manage real world matters.

[BumRushDaShow]

1. Just about to post

and beat me by mere seconds.

[Sophia4]

2. The typical pattern in authoritarian regimes is that the people working for the boss

compete with each other for authority and the approval of and promotion by the top dog, the top authoritarian.

That's what is happening with this extreme-right, authoritarian Trump White House. The people who work for it are often very ambitious, think they alone know what is right (often think their wishes are God's will for example) and cannot work together well.

See Hitler's Circle of Evil

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6600720/

Well worth watching.

When people are in a movement to serve the greater good, they do not vie for or jockey for positions of power quite as much as people who really believe in serving mostly their own interests. Democrats tend to be more interested in serving the greater good. We see in the Trump administration that Republicans of today are not that interested in the greater good and compete with each other to an extent that is not healthy for our country.

[katmondoo]

6. I really, really hate Trump and the whole Republican party

[Eliot Rosewater]

3. Rump is a frightened little asshole who would NEVER attack anyone one on one

or if her SO was in the room.

What a little fucking PUNK

[Wellstone ruled]

7. Yup,Team Mueller is closing in and

he needs distractions . Just the start,watch for more of this stories to hit the press daily.

Donald,the Storm is coming!

[Eliot Rosewater]

8. War in Iran of course, starting as I type this, that is the news of the day.

Putin told Rump to withdraw from nuclear treaty so he did.

GOP officially and openly and without hesitation now supports KGB over USA

[Wellstone ruled]

10. Smelling that way.

There is a statement form the Sixties that is so true today. Sick Old Men make stupid decisions,that kill young men.

Sure fits,does it not.

[Blue_Adept]

4. But no, she'll stay in order to get chewed out more.

[louis-t]

5. So, Der Fuhrer was angry because one woman couldn't

do the impossible all by herself to make Der Fuhrer look good? What a sack of shit he is.

[awesomerwb1]

9. Immigrants are the boogymen these days

She is a Kelly protege. Kelly's a racist POS.

She enjoys torturing immigrants, but can't take a few stern words from cheetolini?

[TeamPooka]

11. It's hard to work for an idiot. nt

[Liberalagogo]

12. "close to" means nothing

No sympathy for you.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

13. At some point these people are gonna have to choose between their hatred of fur'ners and their

dignity. I mean whatever infinitesimal fraction of dignity they may still posses.

[Strelnikov_]

14. ..

[Corgigal]

15. Trump verbally abusing a woman?

You don't say. So hard to believe. Why do you think his wife acts like a pet?

[hatrack]

16. So fucking quit already, while you still have some shreds of dignity left

Or stay, and keep on arresting children, and enforcing bullshit laws, and militarizing this country, you bag of pus.

[riversedge]

17. What is it with trump and his pathological obsession with the wall, border security,

refugees, and immigrants!!

[Hugin]

22. He's a bigot. n/t

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

18. Trump throws everyone under the bus eventually

[tclambert]

19. Trump Appointee, look upward! Do you see the underside of a bus?

You will.

[dreamland]

20. SNOWFLAKE!

So she melted when it came time to submit her letter?! As cowardly as they come.

[Hugin]

21. But... Didn't.

Throw her in the bin with Nikki and all the other spineless blowhards.

NEXT!